Anybody on showdown annoyed by Tapus & Ultra Beasts?

Well, specifically I play doubles and VGC 17 games on there. They just released a bunch of new pokemon, and all everyone is using are the really poewrful ultra beasts & Tapus. I wish they were illegal so that people could be a bit more creative. They are beatable and have weaknesses, but pokemon that hit hard and fast are hard to counter, especially when they're running psychic terrain to make priority moves useless.

WHat I hate is I'm basically having to make my team counter these types specifically instead of being well rounded, or maybe I'll just run the same tapus and ultra beasts like everyone else. So boring sigh

Tapus are fun but I'm getting annoyed by the UB's. I'm pretty low rating so everyone runs Phero and Kartana so youre just forced into running a priority move that oneshots them which is a bit boring but hey that's the game.

Priority isnt the only way to shut down the ultra beats. Trick room kills all momentum cause of there lack in bulk makes them food if you go first. I dont really like trick room though so Ive been getting alot of success in evolite charjabug. Letting my special attackers KO them with ease while using string shot to put them at a snails pace. Fun part about doubles is there are so many options for clearing big threats.

I can't say much for singles as I don't really enjoy those formats. But I find in Doubles, even when the metagame is centralized, that everything can be beaten and there's still a lot of room for creativity.

If you refuse to play any of the Tapus or UBs on your team, though, I think you're just being contrarian for little reason. There's plenty of room for creativity even on a team with a couple of those.

I think the complaint is that metagame is still doing this. Its suffered from repetitive teams for years now, and the people who make the rules know this. Thats why they allowed legendaries, to try and mix it up. Only it didnt, it just changed what pokemon everyone was using.

They know how good the ultra beasts are, they how good the tapus are. Did they know how dominating UBs and Tapus would be to the metagame? Maybe, maybe not but it wouldnt be hard to guess.

I think they could have easily given a safe limit on UBs. One per team or even 2 but youre only allowed to ise one. Im not saying having no tapu and no UB would have solved the problem VGC has had for 4 years but doing nothing isnt going to fix it either.

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